ArticlePerspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science2018
False-Positive Citations.
Article in Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
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The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
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Who cites it
15 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- Reproducible research into human chemical communication by cues and pheromones: learning from psychology's renaissance.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2020Review
- Teenagers, screens and social media: a narrative review of reviews and key studies.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2020Review
- [Pitfalls in the statistical world].HNO · 2020Review
- Molecular evolution of mammalian genes with epistatic interactions in fertilization.BMC evolutionary biology · 2019Article
- Predict, Control, and Replicate to Understand: How Statistics Can Foster the Fundamental Goals of Science.Perspectives on behavior science · 2019Article
- The Danger of Testing by Selecting Controlled Subsets, with Applications to Spoken-Word Recognition.Journal of cognition · 2019Article
- Commentary: Acetaminophen Enhances the Reflective Learning Process.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
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Authors and funding
3 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
We describe why we wrote "False-Positive Psychology," analyze how it has been cited, and explain why the integrity of experimental psychology hinges on the full disclosure of methods, the sharing of materials and data, and, especially, the preregistration of analyses.
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Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.